“I love you. I love you all the way.”

“Your family is real, but mine isn't? Real people with real feelings, but my family isn't real to you. You think. I'm a character. A story. Those women you talk about. Not real people to you. Stupid...”

“Mr. Arsenikos said if you knew the constellations you would never get lost. You could always find your way home.”

“I was moving forward into space, but i would never come home again”

“I couldn't say, "I lost the best thing that ever happened to me." Wasn't that punishment enough?”

“Sometimes waiting and being disappointed was good, to remind me he didn't belong to me. Nothing belonged to me.”

“I feel like every project I work on is a dream project, so long as I am learning.”

“Love, too, has to be learned.”

“Every pain is a lesson.”

“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that youve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you sa...”

“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”

“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there i...”

“I am no poet. I do not love words for the sake of words. I love words for what they can accomplish. Similarly, I am no arithmetician. Numbers that speak only of numbers are of little interest to me.”

“Miri took genuine comfort in studying Mathematics that day. She could sort numbers into two simple ideas: true and not true. Unlike numbers, words were rarely just one thing. They moved and changed...”

“Oh! Science! Everything has been revised. For the body and for the soul,--the viaticum,there are medicine and philosophy,old wives' remedies and popular songs rearranged. And the pastimes of prince...”